Friday, April 13, 2012

Best Ever Hockey Card

This is clearly, without a doubt, the best hockey card ever made. From the back of the card:

"From the dense rainforests of northern British Columbia comes Titan the VooDoo Warrior. Titan leads the VooDoo tribe into battle as they claim another victim and celebrate each VooDoo goal in a ritual known as the VooDoo Bongo Beat."

Instead of using one of the many native groups that actually live in northern British Columbia, the Vancouver Voodoo organization adopted this Polynesian-styled character as their mascot. It kind of works: Titan is a gaudy perversion of native culture in the same way that the RHI was a gaudy perversion of the NHL.

The VooDoo tribe may not exist in BC anymore, but it lives on ... as a bar... in Malaysia?

I'm one of the few people in the world who actually have that rarest of cards. I used to go to many Voodoo games and was a huge fan of the team. I still have a jersey and whenever I wear it, it always turns heads. I'm happy to see the legacy lives on as a Malaysian bar somehow.